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		<title>Is Facebook Trusted?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 17:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the Crunchies in 2009, Mark Zuckerberg said that privacy was no longer a social norm, that people want to share information about themselves. He may be right but it doesn&#8217;t seem that the trust factor is there for Facebook, which makes you wonder, why do so many people reveal so much when they say they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is it time to &#8220;Unlike&#8221; Facebook for business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 02:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Businesses have been bombarded with the message that they must be on Facebook, but as the social media frenzy is leveling out, people are beginning to take a hard look at whether Facebook is the right place to invest your efforts. It depends on the business. Restaurants, musicians and game developers can get a boost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Focus for Results in Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If You Don&#8217;t Know Why, You Won&#8217;t Know Who Most of us worry about committing to a niche market (a focused, targetable portion, or subset, of a market sector) because we are afraid that if we limit ourselves to targeting a single market we’ll miss out on other opportunities. So we try to do everything [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Joy of Workshops</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Social Media/Internet Workshop]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[business plan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love learning and I love teaching. I am in the perfect business, because there is no end to new information to learn and people want someone to condense it and explain so they can make informed decisions and get on with their lives! I just had the pleasure of presenting a one-day workshop in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growing Your Business with Social Media &amp; Internet Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Montana Department of Transportation DBE, in conjunction with Prospera Business Network and the Montana WBC present  GROWING YOUR BUSINESS WITH SOCIAL MEDIA AND INTERNET MARKETING Tuesday, April 10  9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. at the Wingate by Wyndham   2305 Catron Street &#8211; Bozeman Cost: $25 (includes lunch and materials)  Registration require - Click Here Questions? Contact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Questions to Focus Your Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[teleseminars]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the big concerns I hear from the business people I coach is the fear of FOCUS. They don&#8217;t want to narrow, or target, their market in any way because they might lose business. And yet, practical experience shows this kind of thinking is wrong. In fact, by focusing you will expand your reach. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sales Psychology, part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So what was it about holding the item that cinched the sale? It&#8217;s called the endowment effect, and it basically says that people value things more when they own them. It&#8217;s tied in with the idea of loss aversion, which is that people would rather avoid loss than acquire. The endowment effect rocked some worlds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Practice Makes Perfect</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 18:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[speaking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[become a better speaker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[business skills]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking skills are like anything else. The more you do it, the better you get. The problem is, where can you practice? I have rehearsed presentations to my dogs, but they are short on useful feedback. I get yawns and sometimes they simply walk away but it&#8217;s not helpful. Are they saying it&#8217;s too long? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sales Psychology, part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 17:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you worried about losing sales to the Internet? You have an In-Store advantage &#8211; and if you&#8217;re not using it, you&#8217;re missing a great opportunity. The key is to understand the psychology of what makes people buy. The day I decided to purchase my first MacBook was a big step for me. I had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How You Present It Matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 17:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Communicate Your Business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Small businesses have so many things to manage. Accounting, inventory, personnel, to name a few. One area we don&#8217;t often think about is the way we present our services. Let&#8217;s look at how choices can be presented to connect with the underlying emotions that drive people. Research shows that people are more concerned about avoiding [...]]]></description>
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